I couldn't seem to take my eye off of the man in charge of cutting the watermelon...

He had a continual stream of watermelon juice dripping from his chin...

Just like me...except mine is drool...mommy keeps telling me it's just because I am teething.

This threshing is hard work to begin with and then it had to be 100 degrees out...

So I just took my shirt off and that made it way cooler...not sure why no one else thought of this!

I brought my Canon digital camera so I could take lots of pictures for Grandma's blog...I felt like the paparazzi....

I took pictures of people that slept in a tee pee. They were dressed in funny costumes and cooked their meals in a big black kettle over a fire. They make peach cobbler over the fire and well if anyone knows me...they know I LOVE my peaches!

I took pictures of a grandpa making rope.

There were people making wrought iron tools...

And the best part of the threshing bee were the animals in Grandpa's grove...

There were pens of cute little kid goats...just my size!

They had baby size horns on the tops of their fuzzy little heads...

There was a pen of donkey's...or are they mules?? Hmmm...I always get those confused.

And then there was my favorite...a pen of sheep!

Their ears feel just like the soft edges of my blanky...

Now I know this picture may lead you to think that I didn't like the sheep...

but really

I am crying just because it was time to say good-bye to the sheep, really...

Well I'm rubbing my eyes, it must be nap time...

so I had better wrap this story up...

I'm looking forward to next year...

when I won't have to be so dependant on Mommy & I can run through Great Grandpa Lyle's grove in my striped bib overalls...

What a great story teller you are Beckham. Such a cutie patoody too! I love tractors also, especially the old time ones that look like Mater in "Cars". Have you seen Lightning McQueen yet? "Sheep Dreams" Beckham!!!

Oh that Beckham can sure write..he is so cute..I loved the photo of him looking at the goats and seeing his little rootbeer belly..that I just want to give a squeeze too..this was such a fun post...maybe Beckham could do it again..:)

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